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Ashton-under-Lyne - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 646 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 857 hours , potential overflows 7 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Ashton-under-Lyne so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 29 hours , 746 offline
Feb - 314 hours , 87 offline
Mar - 235 hours , 7 potential
Apr - 11 hours
May - 55 hours , 0 potential
Jun - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities DUKINFIELD WwTW River Tame 17 121h 10m 9 h
United Utilities ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE WwTW River Tame 15 99h 22m -
United Utilities Clayton Bridge CSO River Medlock 24 58h 4 h
United Utilities Wharf Street CSO River Mersey 19 46h 46m -
United Utilities Turner Lane/Alexandra Road CSO River Tame 26 43h 58m 0 h
United Utilities 250 metres d/s Ashton Road (Bardsley PS) CSO River Medlock 6 41h 31m 829 h
United Utilities Broadoak/Lyndhurst Avenue CSO Taunton 17 37h 21m -
United Utilities DUKINFIELD WwTW River Tame 12 35h 52m -
United Utilities Broomstair Road CSO River Tame 15 35h 28m -
United Utilities LOWER WHARF STREET CSO River Tame 23 35h 2m -
United Utilities Pottinger Street/Oxford Street CSO River Tame 20 26h 58m 0 h
United Utilities Lower Wharf Street/Scotland Street CSO River Tame 19 24h 9m 2 h
United Utilities Chappell Road CSO Lumb Brook 18 19h 8m -
United Utilities Newmarket Road PS Taunton Brook, Medlock 11 10h 14m -
United Utilities Edward Street (Dunkinfield) CSO River Tame Via Sws 8 4h 48m -
United Utilities Coal Pit Lane CSO Kebbs Brook, Riv Darwen 4 2h 56m -
United Utilities Lumb Lane (Audenshaw) CSO and Detention Tank Carr Brook Via Sws 1 1h 17m -
United Utilities Gambrel Bank Road CSO Downshaw Brook 4 0h 54m -
United Utilities Medlock Sports Centre CSO Lumb Brook Via Surface Wtr Sew 1 0h 32m -
United Utilities Green Lane/Lyndhurst Avenue CSO Smallshaw Brook 1 0h 30m -
United Utilities Dukinfield Outfall Sewer CSO River Tame 1 0h 16m -
United Utilities ASHTON OLD ROAD / MANSHAW STREET CSO Moss Brook 1 0h 2m 1 h
United Utilities ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE WwTW River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Newmarket Road PS Taunton Brook, Medlock 0 0h -
United Utilities HARTSHEAD CLOSE / MANSHAW ROAD CSO Culverted Section Moss Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Medlock Sports Centre CSO Lumb Brook Via Surface Wtr Sew 0 0h -
United Utilities HUNTS BANK CSO River Irk 0 0h -
United Utilities Lower Wharf Street/Scotland Street CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Chappell Road CSO Lumb Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE WwTW River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities HARTSHEAD CLOSE / MANSHAW ROAD CSO Culverted Section Moss Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Dukinfield Outfall Sewer CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Hathershaw Playing Field River Medlock 0 0h -
United Utilities Greenwood Avenue/Platt Avenue CSO Smallshaw Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Edward Street (Dunkinfield) CSO River Tame Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Hathershaw Playing Field River Medlock 0 0h -
United Utilities Gambrel Bank Road CSO Downshaw Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Broomstair Road CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Clayton Bridge CSO River Medlock 0 0h -
United Utilities DUKINFIELD WwTW River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Green Lane/Lyndhurst Avenue CSO Smallshaw Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities HUNTS BANK CSO River Irk 0 0h -
United Utilities Argyll Street CSO Cock Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities ASHTON OLD ROAD / MANSHAW STREET CSO Moss Brook 0 0h -
United Utilities Lumb Lane (Audenshaw) CSO and Detention Tank Carr Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities 250 metres d/s Ashton Road (Bardsley PS) CSO River Medlock 0 0h -
United Utilities DUKINFIELD WwTW River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Argyll Street CSO Cock Brook 0 0h 17 h
United Utilities Greenwood Avenue/Platt Avenue CSO Smallshaw Brook Via Sws 0 0h -
United Utilities Wharf Street CSO River Mersey 0 0h -
United Utilities Coal Pit Lane CSO Kebbs Brook, Riv Darwen 0 0h -
United Utilities LOWER WHARF STREET CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Broadoak/Lyndhurst Avenue CSO Taunton 0 0h -
United Utilities Turner Lane/Alexandra Road CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities Pottinger Street/Oxford Street CSO River Tame 0 0h -
United Utilities ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE WwTW River Tame 0 0h -

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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